Sr Director, Project Management - Neurosciences Rare Diseases Team Oversight/People Mgr Function - Remote in NA

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Senior Director, Project Mgmt – Oversight and People Mgr Role

MUST HAVE an expertise in Rare Diseases to be considered. Please demonstrate this in your resume submittal.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Our Project Delivery colleagues within our PPD® clinical research services direct, coordinate and manage the technical and operational aspects of projects, securing the successful completion of clinical trials. This includes collaborating with functional area leads to identify and evaluate fundamental issues on the project and to ensure that solutions are implemented. Project Delivery is vital to helping our customers deliver life-changing therapies.

Through our global team, you may engage in diverse initiatives and projects, or be part of a virtual international project team gaining cross-cultural experience.

Discover Impactful Work:

We are seeking a Senior Director in our Project Management Team (Neurosciences Rare Disease Therapy Area). This role will be a combined Oversight and People Manager focused role. This role is for the North America region and is remote based.

• Oversees operational excellence for the department developing strategies to ensure high quality deliverables and successful management of the financial portfolio. Maintains strategic relationships and serves as a senior leadership contact for clients. Provides input to business development and drives the business strategy focusing on innovation, operational efficiency and expansion of the department's global footprint.

• The Oversight Director is accountable for strategic indication or client-specific portfolio management within a Therapeutic Unit. Provides therapeutic expertise in project delivery execution, demonstrating the ability to react quickly and appropriately to escalations. Provokes critical thinking in the Project Lead related to delivery operations, financial negotiations and risk mitigations/issue management for a project. Drives the overall strategy development for proposals and pre-proposal opportunities.

• The People Manager directs a team of Project Delivery direct reports of differing levels of experience and project roles within a Therapeutic Unit. Oversees the career development and performance management of their team, providing coaching in both soft skills and technical skills as related to the use of organization systems, tools and processes. Identifies training gaps and implements strategic solutions, while driving employee motivation and trust. Provides leadership to the department and fosters the ability to collaborate and balance business need with career development opportunities.

A day in the Life:

• Accountable for strategic indication or client-specific portfolio management within a Therapeutic Unit​.
• Serves as senior level or executive contact.
• May review financial forecasting of TA.
• Acts as a Champion for organizational changes, offerings, developments and lead workstreams.
• Expertly navigates the need to dive in/dive out of situations while ensuring the Project Lead remains empowered.
• Provokes critical thinking and drives innovation in Project Lead related to execution of delivery, financial negotiations and prioritization​.
• Provides insight into proposal strategy in prep for bid defense​.
• Initiates collaboration with Therapeutic Unit Head in development and implementation of business growth strategies.
• Maintains awareness and engages as appropriate in the Con Mod process.
• Manage staff, including interviewing and selection, job description preparation, professional development, goal setting, performance management, coaching and mentoring, employee counseling, and separations. Approves courses of action on salary administration, hiring, corrective action, and terminations. Reviews and approves time records, expense reports, requests for leave, and overtime.
• Partners with project team leadership and key stakeholders (i.e OD, SLT, BPL, DevOps, functional leadership) to ensure areas of development, training needs and coaching are aligned through routine and active engagement.
• Liaises with Resourcing Leads, TU Leadership and other key stakeholders to advocate for direct report(s), ensure appropriate project assignment(s) and balance between career development and business needs.
• Utilizes metrics to drive performance.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification

Experience

• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 15+ years).
• 7+ years of management responsibility
• Advanced leadership skills

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Capable of working independently and exercising independent judgment to assess sponsor regulatory needs and work with project team members to producing compliant deliverables
• Advanced, broad understanding of global/regional/national country requirements/regulatory affairs procedures for clinical trial authorization, licensing, lifecycle management; expert knowledge of ICH and other global regulatory guidelines; in-depth understanding of a regulatory specialty areas, such as preclinical, clinical, CMC, publishing, etc.
• Advanced understanding of medical terminology, statistical concepts, and guidelines
• Outstanding analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills, including complex evaluations of intangible variables
• Expert financial acumen with an in-depth of knowledge and practical application of budgeting, forecasting and resource management
• Accomplished executive presence and consultation and presentation skills
• Superior critical and strategic thinking skills that accounts for a broad impact
• Superior coaching skills with the ability to have challenging conversations
• Excellent performance stewardship with the ability to drive performance through metrics
• Superior judgment, decision making and problem-solving skills and proven ability to apply critical and analytical strategic thinking skills to drive development and retention of top performers
• Proven leadership as a change champion
• Proven ability to collaborate and foster accountability and excellence in a learning environment
• Strong negotiation skills with ability to influence others and drive results
• Proven ability to drive innovation and lead, develop and/or implement department wide talent strategies, including ensuring the proper resources are allocated based on individual skills and abilities

Work Environment

Thermo Fisher Scientific values the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

• Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.
• Able to work upright and stationary for typical working hours.
• Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.
• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities. 
• May require travel.  (Recruiter will provide more details.) 

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